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Playthrough 

A video with a more relaxed and casual focus on the game that is being played.
A playthrough is often a video with live commentary on and is the most popular form for YouTube gaming videos.

A playthrough is not to be confused with a walkthrough as a walkthrough is a strategy guide and a playthrough is not.

Playthrough is considered the same as a "Let's play" and is also spelled "play through" or "play-through"
Guy 1: Did you see that guy's Metro: Last light walkthrough?
Guy 2: Would hardly call it a walkthrough, he was just messing around and it was obvious that he hadn't played the game beforehand, i would call it a "Let's play" or "Playthrough" if anything.
Playthrough by MrTripleCC May 26, 2013
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Blind PlayThrough 

“Blind playthrough” refers to people playing video games for the first time where they are “blind” to what happens in a game and react to the story as it unfolds.
xQc is playing this game without knowing anything about it, he's doing a "Blind PlayThrough"

Poverty Playthrough 

1. Watching a youtube playthrough of a game you can't afford.
2. To play video games through internet streams vicariously
Billy: Have you played the new God of War?

Bob: I can't afford it cause i'm, po' boii.

Billy: Same, went through a poverty playthrough of it though, saved $70.

Level Thirty Five Roxas Defeating Sephiroth Within Eighty One Attempts: Hades Playthrough Was Ran Within A Hundred And Eighty One Tries: 《¤》The First Juvenile Release... 

What I call homo-sapiens who are addicted to Yu-Gi-Oh!
Person 1: Level Thirty Five Roxas Defeating Sephiroth Within Eighty One Attempts: Hades Playthrough Was Ran Within A Hundred And Eighty One Tries: 《¤》The First Juvenile Release...

Play through 

A phrase borrowed from the golf course. This gives permission to an individual or group to discontinue listening to your boring discourse about yourself.
Will: ...and I won "Best Lawyer" award again, and I have 704 friends on Facebook, and I've never suffered, and once at the Eiffel Tower..... (then notices the attention of listener is wandering) ...oh, that's OK....you just go ahead and play through....and I took her picture at the catacombs...and I'm handsome...
Play through by 209 fo' evah July 12, 2010

play through 

When a male is having sex with a female and his buddy comes along. The male in mid coitus will stop before he is done and let his buddy have sex with the female. After his buddy is done the original male will continue. Usually happens in a train.
I was late for the train on your mom but Derwin let me play through
play through by Roob-Dogg January 12, 2009
The striver is an interesting phenomenon that is seen across college campuses. In essence, the striver is an over-achiever who comes from a working or middle class family. He may be an immigrant. He may have been a slacker in HS who was "born again" into an academic wunderkind. Or he may just be an over-achiever who is keeping at it.

The striver is willing to sacrifice his social life at the expense of Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude. The striver is the guy who stays at the library long after you are gone. The striver is the guy who takes 30 credits/semester and considers anything below an A/4.0 failure. The striver doesn't work on campus, he is too busy finding ways to pad his resume instead of working retail or workstudy. The striver lets his grades pay his education by applying to ten scholarships a year.

The striver is a future Soros/Fullbright/Rhodes/Gates/Marshall/etc. fellow. The striver lives to study. For the striver, their fun comes from the rewards they expect to receive in return for their diligence. Be it Law School, B-School, academia, or politics. The striver seeks to find the American Dream through academic success.
Anthony was a striver. He transfered from a TTT to an IVY and graduated in 2 years. He studied his ass off and went to Penn Law. He got a Biglaw offer. But lost it all because of an unmoderated mesasgeboard.

Successful strivers:
- Barack Obama
- Harold Koh
Striver by URM Striver January 3, 2009
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